Five Antique Hand Wrought Spoons

Item Details

A group of five antique hand wrought iron cooking spoons or ladle from the Southwestern United States or Mexico. Two appear to have attached bowls while the bowls were forged out of the same stock as the handle on the other three. One of the items with forged spoons has a large spoon on one end and a smaller spoon at the other end of the handle. The other four have a loop for hanging at the end of the spoon. One of the attached bowls in copper on an iron handle. Old collector’s tags accompany two of the spoons.

1938.457, 456, 458, 454

Provenance
Collected in the late 19th and early 20th century and donated to a Private Midwestern Institution in 1938
Sold to enhance and preserve the Institution’s mission-relevant Collections

Condition

all aged and well worn.
some rusting,
dents and splits to the bowls

Dimensions

largest spoon

Item #

17COL077-275